Blocked
Imagine waking up one morning in the not so distant future. You reach for your phone and none of your apps work, you can’t access your email, all your social media accounts have been deleted. You can’t...
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Robots here and now
We are living in an increasingly automated, digitalised and interconnected world. I recently had the opportunity to tour an exhibit on automation, robotics, and future technology in Belgium. There was...
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Vince Cable speech: break-up the big tech monopolies
In a speech in London this morning entitled ‘Taming the Tech Titans’, Liberal Democrat Leader Vince Cable has called for stronger international and domestic regulation of big tech companies. You can...
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We’re turning away skilled workers
6,000 skilled people were denied entry to the UK last year due to visa caps. The Campaign for Science and Engineering reported on a Freedom of Information request to the Home Office which showed that...
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Lib Dem MPs on Twitter
I spent at least some time this weekend mentally upbraiding Iain Dale for his paranoia in thinking that technical faults that got in the way of a David Cameron interview with Andrew Marr stemmed from...
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Calling Kindle owners (and would-be owners)
The Amazon Kindle is a new, cynical way of Amazon selling books without having to pay postage modern format of reading content without having to waste trees. Amazon have recently redesigned their...
View ArticleOne Canadian online political campaigning rule unlikely to make it to the UK
Canada’s CBC News reports: A politician running to lead the B.C. New Democrats says he is refusing to comply with a requirement of leadership hopefuls to hand over the passwords to their social media...
View ArticleTwitter, trolling and the law
Last week I took part in a discussion on Voice of Russia radio about the problem of abuse and threats on Twitter. We talked about questions such as what the law should allow and what Twitter’s terms...
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Opinion: Open standards: a liberal approach to technology
As we look at how we use technology to campaign as Liberal Democrats, we should consider the use of open standards. Most people know something very basic about the World Wide Web – it was invented by...
View ArticleHave you downloaded your Spring Conference app yet?
The new Liberal Democrat conference app is now available on both Google Play and Apple’s app store. The instructions for downloading it in the Conference agenda are not ever so clear as they don’t tell...
View ArticleLibLink: David Boyle – The future? We’ve seen it all before
View image | gettyimages.com Over on the Guardian’s Comment is Free, former editor of Liberal Democrat News and Liberal Democrat blogger of the year, David Boyle, argues that technological change is...
View ArticleHow Lib Dems are using Pokemon Go
Embed from Getty Images This week I succumbed, only for the sake of family bonding, to the latest craze sweeping the planet, or at least that part of it that can afford a mobile phone with enough 4G...
View ArticleLiberalism GO
Embed from Getty Images Last week the new mobile phone game Pokémon Go was launched in the UK (you can download it on Apple and Android devices) and it seems to have been a great hit. The point of the...
View ArticleHow will the Liberal Democrats prepare the UK for emergent technologies?
Embed from Getty Images Let’s take a brief look at the list of things that are on my Letter to Santa: Artificial intelligence Quantum computing In-vitro meat and vertical farming Mass-commercialised...
View ArticleLibLInk: Nick Clegg: This is the future – the unstoppable march of machines
Nick Clegg’s latest Standard column starts off by setting out a number of current problems. One is very different from the others: There’s a lot to worry about these days: hard Brexit, Trump’s...
View ArticleTime to ditch Connect?
The party has used two systems for computer based campaigning. EARS, developed in the UK for UK elections and more recently Connect, which was developed for use in US and Canadian election systems....
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Mobile phones: do parents need to turn them off as much as their children?
Today whilst sitting in a local café I saw something vaguely disturbing – which I seem to see almost every day now. This may be rather an unusual subject for a blog, but I just had to sit down and...
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15 October 2018 – today’s press releases…
It’s been suggested quite often in these pages that the media coverage we get as a Party isn’t that great. And, often, it is suggested that we need to crank up our media operation. So, for one week,...
View ArticleJo Swinson MP writes: Another week of Brexit chaos, another week of...
On Monday morning the ONS revealed that 1.5 million workers in England alone could lose their jobs to automation, with young people, women and the low-skilled most at risk. Just as we start yet another...
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Patrolling the new frontier: Regulating online extremism
A month after the horrific attack in Christchurch, which was live-streamed on Facebook, New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern said: “It’s critical that technology platforms like Facebook are not perverted as a...
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